TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nick Higham
TI  - Mavericks: : empire oil revolution and the forgotten battle of world war one
SN  - 9781037203923
U1  - 940.53 
PY  - 2025///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Publishing
KW  - Military History
KW  - Imperial Strategy and Geopolitics
KW  - Collapse of Empires and Revolution
KW  - Oil and Strategic Resources
N2  - The forgotten story of a group of British mavericks who took on an impossible mission with a daring and fearless approach.
As the First World War drew to a close and regimes began to collapse across Europe, British officials plotted a daring campaign to send an unlikely band of maverick soldiers, diplomats and spies to the chaotic region around the Caspian Sea. Their mission: to block the advance of the Turks, to hold back the rising Bolsheviks and prevent a Turkish-inspired jihad overwhelming India, and to secure the vital supply of oil from Baku.
Drawing on personal diaries, memoirs and once-secret government archives, Mavericks brings to life a cast of eccentric heroes who survived against all odds to tell their extraordinary tales. This is a propulsive story of boldness and intrigue, set in a forgotten corner of the Great War where the rules were made to be broken
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